Now Rangoni comes to the point, and we hear, for the first time, a long, downward chromatic scale that will become the characteristic motif of his sinister power.

This results in a characteristic type of irregular, uncoordinated movement that can manifest itself in many possible ways, such as asthenia, asynergy, delayed reaction time, and dyschronometria.

Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, ( who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts ), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon.

* The retention time is the characteristic time it takes for a particular analyte to pass through the system ( from the column inlet to the detector ) under set conditions.

In a scheme costing £ 15, 000 ( a record for the time ), he built a pavilion ( the present-day ' Cottage ' itself ) and the Stevenage Road Stand, in his characteristic red brick style.

; Level 3-Defined: It is characteristic of processes at this level that there are sets of defined and documented standard processes established and subject to some degree of improvement over time.

Very different mathematical treatments apply to the design of filters termed infinite impulse response ( IIR ) filters, characteristic of mechanical and analog electronics systems, and finite impulse response ( FIR ) filters, which can be implemented by discrete time systems such as computers ( then termed digital signal processing ).

If the cooling is sufficiently rapid ( relative to the characteristic crystallization time ) then crystallization is prevented and instead the disordered atomic configuration of the supercooled liquid is frozen into the solid state at T < sub > g </ sub >.

Hence, the relaxation period ( characteristic flow time ) of cathedral glasses would be even longer.

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

Typically the dead time will result in an upper count rate limit of 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > to 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > counts per second depending on the characteristic of the tube being used.

Jan Vermeer's famous painting A Lady Standing at a Virginal shows the characteristic practice of his time, with the instrument mounted on a table and the player standing.

This characteristic is important in recognising the development, function and different styles of wearing swords from this time onwards.

Slight variations in the initial population yield dramatically different results over time, a prime characteristic of chaos.

After a ( potentially very long ) period of time, spontaneously or under an external action, the characteristic parameters of the state change again to relax to a more stable state.

However, they grow in sophistication with time, and by 4000 B. C., begin to show the characteristic hairstyles and prominent breasts.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

Nihilism is also a characteristic that has been ascribed to time periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch, and some Christian theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism, and that rejection of their theistic doctrine entails nihilism.

It is frequently danced to mid-tempo ballads in 4 / 4 time that have a characteristic Quick-Quick-Slow beat.

On the other hand, so-called delayed neutrons emitted as radioactive decay products with half-lives up to several minutes, from fission-daughters, are very important to reactor control, because they give a characteristic " reaction " time for the total nuclear reaction to double in size, if the reaction is run in a " delayed-critical " zone which deliberately relies on these neutrons for a supercritical chain-reaction ( one in which each fission cycle yields more neutrons than it absorbs ).

Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time and situations.

The Deborah number is defined as the ratio of the characteristic time of relaxation ( which purely depends on the material and other conditions like the temperature ) to the characteristic time of experiment or observation.

A characteristic mannerism in Rossini's orchestral scoring is a long, steady building of sound over an ostinato figure, creating " tempests in teapots by beginning in a whisper and rising to a flashing, glittering storm ," which earned him the nickname of " Signor Crescendo ".

The core histone proteins contain a characteristic structural motif termed the " histone fold ," which consists of three alpha-helices ( α1-3 ) separated by two loops ( L1-2 ).

There is also a characteristic strain of anti-sentimental depictions of relationships and sex, exemplified by " Love Comes in Spurts ," written by Richard Hell and recorded by him with The Voidoids.

In a 1951 symposium discussing psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman's paper " The Sexual Psychopath ," psychiatrist Emil Gutheil said, " Looking back upon my own experience with so-called psychopaths, I find one characteristic they all have in common, and that is their infantilism.

Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or " ragged ," rhythm.

; Haagen, J .; AT & T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, " A speech coder based on decomposition of characteristic waveforms ," IEEE 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1995.

The name " Dolomites " is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains ; previously they were called the " pale mountains ," and it was only in the early 19th century that the name was Gallicized.

Some Shakespeare scholars speculate that it derives from Shakespeare's own draft, or " foul papers ," since it contains minor errors in speech labels and stage directions that are thought to be characteristic of the author in the process of composition.

His work showed the first signs of " marivaudage ," which now signifies the flirtatious bantering tone characteristic of Marivaux's dialogues.

A characteristic phrase is " high tide ," pronounced somewhat like " hoi toid ", and locals are referred to as high tiders or hoi toiders.

" The characteristic " Color Timer ," more familiar to American audiences as the " warning light " on his chest, was added at the eleventh hour.

Some single and minor pieces, an epithalamium on Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne de Navarre ( 1550 ), a " Hymne de la France " ( 1549 ), an " Ode a la Paix ," preceded the publication in 1550 of the four first books (" first " is characteristic and noteworthy ) of the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard.

Prominent Victorian theorists identified " associative thinking ," ( a common feature of practitioners of magic ) as a characteristic form of irrationality.

Another characteristic practice of pow-wow magic is the Himmelsbrief or " heaven's letter " and Teufelsbrief, a " devil's letter ," which presumably is meant to bestow a curse.

These potential outcomes would reinforce Bourdieu's " ethic of sobriety for the sake of slimness, which is most recognized at the highest levels of the social hierarchy ," that contrasts the " convivial indulgence " characteristic of the lower classes.

Despite his belief that the Bible was fallible, Martineau continued to hold the view, which was not so much characteristic of the man as of the school in which he had been trained, that " in no intelligible sense can any one who denies the supernatural origin of the religion of Christ be termed a Christian ," which term, he explained, was used not as " a name of praise ," but simply as " a designation of belief.

she always puts me out ," was his characteristic exclamation — and painted only two portraits.

" One of the most characteristic features of Catopsbaatar ( which differentiates it not only from Kryptobaatar but from all the djadochtatherioids in which the zygomatic ridges are known ), is a very deep anterior zygomatic ridge, and a small medial zygomatic ridge, the latter forming about a quarter of a circle and adhering the anterior one from behind ," ( Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2002 ).

So one could rephrase the previous statement as " the background of a musical composition is arhythmic ," or, better yet, " rhythm is a characteristic of the musical foreground " ( See Der Freie Satz section 21 and chapter 4 ).

Trieste, at first " all that I could desire ," became with characteristic abruptness " detestable and damnable.

* Rodney Dangerfield's shtick was centered around his famous catchphrase, " I don't get no respect ," accompanied by his characteristic facial gesture and yanking or straightening his scarlet necktie.

General Superintendent Reynolds advocated " a mission to the world ," and support for world evangelization became a distinguishing characteristic of Nazarene life.

Fahs considers it the first to achieve " the kind of fully formed vision of survival horror as we know it today ," citing its balance of action and adventure, limited ammunition, weak weaponry, vulnerable main character, feeling of isolation, storytelling through journals, graphic violence, and use of dynamically triggered music-all of which are characteristic elements of later games in the survival horror genre.